Trudie Mason reports: The Jewish General Hospital says it is taking very seriously a breach of patient confidentiality. Hospital documents blew out of the back of a truck on Highway 15 near Mirabel yesterday. One sheet of paper lodged on the windshield of a Laval woman who later retrieved it and was shocked to read…
Has Hirsche Private Asset Management Ltd. gone dark after disclosing breach?
On January 7, this site posted a press release from Hirsche Private Asset Management Ltd. announcing what appears to have been attacks that compromised their clients’ information. Since that time, they have revealed no additional details, and their web site returns 403 and 404 error messages. A bit of digging reveals that Hirsche Private Asset Management Ltd….
CORRECTED: Missing Riverside County Regional Medical Center laptop may have held data on 7,900 patients (updated)
Correction: This article originally reported that Riverside did not return the phone call from PHIprivacy.net asking them to clarify whether this was a second breach or an update of the first breach report.. Riverside did attempt to return the call that day, but was unable to get through as the line was tied up. PHIprivacy.net…
Update: Russian dating website Topface pays off ‘Mastermind’ hacker following email breach, and will work with him going forward
David Gilbert reports an update to the hack of Russian dating web site Topface. As noted previously on this blog, the data had been put up for sale. Now Gilbert reports: Russian dating site Topface has confirmed it has paid off a hacker who revealed a flaw in its security systems, through which he stole 20…
U.S. proposes effort to analyze DNA from 1 million people
Toni Clarke and Sharon Begley report: The United States has proposed analyzing genetic information from more than 1 million American volunteers as part of a new initiative to understand human disease and develop medicines targeted to an individual’s genetic make-up. At the heart of the “precision medicine” initiative, announced on Friday by President Barack Obama,…
FL: Identity Thief Sentenced To More Than Ten Years In Federal Prison
Tampa, Florida – U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Cordell Jones to ten years and one month in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $1,469,435, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Jones pleaded guilty…